Free Will - Yes/No?

[Edwardo Piet]

Beware the "free will fallacy", I've seen some very intelligent people slip up on it:

If we have no genuine choices then we should [alter our behaviour in some way] because [persuading reasons].

It contradicts the premise. "Should", as pertaining to some sort of persuading argument, has no meaning without a genuine choice.

The fact I've seen this so often just goes to show how accustomed we are to thinking we have a choice, whether we actually do or not.

I think "should" just has the usual meaning because nothing has actually changed about the universe, what we think we ought to do or ought not to do is the same as always, it's just people incorrectly believe in an entirely incoherent concept of absolutely free choices and absolute ultimate responsibility, when really we have the same usual decisions and choices we always have they're just not free, absolute or ultimate.

-Hammy